"Healthy soils... could hold up to eight times more water than more depleted soils. And one of the ways to build #healthysoil structure was to let natural matter such as #leaves decompose into it and release #nutrients. Stripping away all the waste from a #garden, then buying #compost to #fertilise it, was counter intuitive."
#Compost, around a cubic metre of it. All materials from last year (2023). Looks good and smells and feels nice. Would already do for a #mulch but I won't be using it until the autumn, so it has another eight or nine months to decompose more. Home to lots of #earthworms.
Mulched beds, borders and (young) shrubs and trees. Exhausted now and all of our own #compost used up. Vegetable garden mulched a couple of weeks ago already. In all I had about ¾ of a cubic metre of compost. Not enough.
Finally, in pouring rain, the space around the little cherry tree & the plum by the hammock was cleared from grass and got manure, cardboard and mulched branches in that order and were watered generously. I can easily prune these myself, small as they are…
And that was it, time was quarter to 3 and I spent rest of the day finishing my hallway bench. Had to get my winter jacket and take breaks inside to get warm. #sarassummer23 @gardening#mulching#fruittrees